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    It happened Just Before

    Anja SALOMONOWITZ 2006 Austria Docu-fiction color 72min English, German DCP
    It Happened Just Before examines the global phenomenon of trafficking in women
    and the mechanisms and power structures that make it possible in all social classes.
    Director has chosen an innovative approach to this theme: her film is based on the
    stories of actual victims, and the director wrote a documentary screenplay on this basis. These stories are told not by actors, but by people who could have been involved in some way. They are a customs official, a villager, a bartender at a brothel, a diplomat and a taxi driver. This is a film about false promises, exploitation, guilt, violence and disappointment.

    Director

    Anja SALOMONOWITZ

    Salomonowitz is a Vienna-based filmmaker. In her films she has developed a visual language that combines elements of documentary film-making, classical narrative, and challenges to politics and society. You will never understand this, It Happened Just Before and The 727 days without Karamo have gained international recognition and won numerous film awards; they have also been cited as references in literature on documentary film-making.

    Anja SALOMONOWITZ

    • 2013 The 727 days without Karamo
    • 2012 Spain
    • 2006 It Happened Just Before《被剝削的夢》
    • 2003 You will never understand this
    • 2001 Mein Stern

    Director & Writer: Anja SALOMONOWITZ

    Producer: Gabriele KRANZELBINDER & Alexander DUMREICHERIVANCEANU

    Director of Cinematography: Jo MOLITORIS

    Editing: Anja SALOMONOWITZ & Frederic FICHEFET & Gregor WILLE

     

    Aalto University, ELO Helsinki Film School

    saara.toivanen@aalto.fi

     

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